Meneses, Maria Paula. “Singing Struggles, Affirming Politics: Mozambique’s Revolutionary Songs as Other Ways of Being (in) History”. In Mozambique on the Move: Challenges and Reflections edited by Sheila Khan, Maria Paula Meneses, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, 254–278. Brill 2019.

Music is a fundamental mode of political expression and a political enactment. In the early years of independent Mozambique, revolutionary songs, broadcasted by the leading nationalist force, FRELIMO, became a significant part of developing a new sense of belonging to an alternative political project, of becoming Mozambique.

[Source: Chapter abstract as culled from researchgate.net].

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